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A new analysis of major AI models reveals systematic political biases, with most models leaning left on economic and social issues. The study, which tested models like Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama, Claude, Grok, and ChatGPT o…
Glassdoor research shows employee confidence in senior leadership has hit its lowest point since 2017, with ratings falling below 3.5. Key drivers include rising layoff anxiety, return-to-office mandates, and rapid AI ad…
Varonis Threat Labs researchers Doron Kapah and Mark Vaitsman launched Breach at the Beach, a Capture The Flag (CTF) training experience designed to teach security practitioners how to detect and respond to data exfiltra…
Google is offering record-low discounts on Pixel 10 phones and Nest Wi-Fi Pro routers during Amazon Prime Day, days after revelations that its Gemini AI monitors Chrome activity. The discounts, including a 33% cut on the…
A medical AI system that reports 99% confidence in a pneumonia diagnosis may be correct only 80% of the time, highlighting a calibration problem where confidence scores do not reflect actual accuracy. Research shows mode…
As AI systems begin to automate mathematical proofs, mathematicians reflect on the value of the slow, deliberative process of discovery. Researchers like Jeremy Avigad and Krystal Maughan emphasize the joy and meaning de…
Vicfuse introduced a UL Class fuse series designed for modern AI infrastructure and industrial protection, offering application-driven categories such as Class CC, J, G, and T to address varying requirements for interrup…
A developer launched The Thinking Engineer Toolkit, a collection of six resources designed to help engineers use AI without outsourcing their judgment. The toolkit includes guides for individuals, teams, and non-technica…
Apple raised Mac mini prices from $599 to $799 and increased iPad Pro and iPad Air prices, citing memory costs driven by AI infrastructure demand. The shift in DRAM supply toward high-bandwidth memory for AI servers is s…
Top CFOs and Deloitte's Casey Caram warned during a Fortune webinar that AI success depends on training employees, not just buying technology, as companies spend 93% of AI budgets on tech and only 7% on people. Hewlett P…
Software engineers are facing an identity crisis and depression as they are forced to fix poor-quality AI-generated code, according to Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das. The rapid adoption of AI tools has created a class …
Mistral launched OCR 4, a document understanding system with bounding boxes and 170-language support at $4/1000 pages. Baidu open-sourced Unlimited-OCR, a 3B-parameter MIT-licensed model for multi-page PDFs. Anthropic in…
AI data centers are facing a populist backlash as communities across the U.S. protest their energy demands, rising electricity rates, air pollution, noise, and water scarcity. A proposed 347,000-square-foot facility in t…
The ARM Institute expanded its RoboticsCareer.org website to focus on physical AI, aiming to demystify skills and training for working alongside AI-enabled robots in manufacturing. The platform now lists job opportunitie…
Anthropic's Mythos AI security tool, touted as too dangerous to release, found only one low-severity vulnerability in the heavily audited curl codebase after a privileged deployment. The curl project lead dismissed the h…
Morgan Stanley, Jefferies, and SpaceX are warning that public backlash against AI—driven by job displacement fears and rising energy costs—poses a material risk to the AI stock rally. A June 23, 2026 sell-off saw the S&P…
A Pennsylvania bank employee used an unauthorized AI tool to process customer data, including names, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth, triggering the first material SEC cybersecurity disclosure for a shadow AI…
Europe's record-breaking heat wave is straining power grids as cooling demand surges, forcing some power plants offline and highlighting the need for utilities to adapt to climate change. Meanwhile, IBM unveiled a protot…
Ford Motor Company hired back over 350 experienced engineers, including former employees, to correct errors made by its automated production and design systems, after realizing that relying solely on artificial intellige…
Anubhav Rohatgi, senior director of products at Adobe, warns that AI adoption in product development is causing burnout and delivering little measurable value, citing an MIT study that found 95% of enterprise generative …